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1. 181.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   No, this is prior art: http://www.eqcity.net/microsoft/micro58.htm It's from 2001, shortly after the announcement of Windows Genuine Advantage.
2. 182.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   So what is to stop you making a deal with me, that if somebody writes "ARF" in your box on the ballot paper, that you will pay me £1000? It will obviously be disputed, so it will be shown to you as a candidate, and it is unusual enough tha
3. 183.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   > This was sarcasm No, it was irony.
4. 184.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   If thermal imaging is no longer effective then governments may try to restrict the supply of suitable LEDs instead. (I am thinking of the UK here - it is probably less likely in the US.)
5. 185.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   Please stop equating "opposes SOPA" with "wants to pirate." You know how inaccurate that is, and the fact that you are arguing for (in your view) a higher cause does not make that Ok.
6. 186.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   Whatever you do, don't get into a bikeshed argument with a lawyer-turned-programmer. If they were a good lawyer, they will be an expert in persuasion, and can get you fired for disagreeing with them about Allman-vs-BSD indenting. Not ou
7. 187.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   So the NSA has the technology, but will not give the FTC access to it. Isn't that a good thing?
8. 188.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   I wonder how many development tools (and presumably other products) have been less successful than they could have been because their creators picked "clever" or "catchy" names (not necessarily rude.) For example I would not look forward to
9. 189.▲
   by finnw 14y ago

   Not quite everything. Macros can define new types, for example.
10. 190.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    * $LANGUAGE is amazingly primitive * GC breaks CoW & caching * dynamic -> lexical scoping between $OLD_VERSION & $NEW_VERSION * concurrent behaviour requires event-driven style Exactly the same could have b
11. 191.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    "has X so you don't need macros" is not equivalent to "has macros" (otherwise nearly every language could claim to be "a lisp.")
12. 192.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    The title sounds like the name of a Big Bang Theory episode
13. 193.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    Good thing that never happens on HN
14. 194.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    Maybe to defend against a DDOS attack that fills your database with unwanted tokens
15. 195.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    I hope not, since that would require ex-post-facto laws.
16. 196.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    That's a luggable not a laptop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_computer
17. 197.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    > If you were on Windows you'd need to install Visual Studio just to get a compiler. Not true, even if you consider only Microsoft software. http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=8279 And if my project involves hea
18. 198.▲
    Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East(bbc.co.uk)

    135 points by finnw 14y ago|47 comments
19. 199.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    > ...there will be plenty available through the browser anyway... Except there won't. Imagine: 1. No third-party browsers. 2. No non-whitelisted sites viewable in the default browser (except maybe in "legacy mode", meaning no scripts,
20. 200.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    Fair enough, but I was thinking "how would I implement it today" rather than "how should they have implemented it at the time."
21. 201.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    > Each time you ask for the next row of results it has to resume from where it last left off and calculate that next row. The virtual machine is a way of saving state between those calls for the next row (amongst other things). They co
22. 202.▲
    Elance introduces VAT invoices(elance.com)

    1 points by finnw 14y ago|0 comments
23. 203.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    I was slightly surprised that they just look like regular keys. I was half expecting them to have special grooves, or protrusions, or magnets or something.
24. 204.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    It's nice to see a HN submission of an on-topic stackoverflow question (instead of all the off-topic ones that get submitted, followed by comments complaining about the question being closed on SO.)
25. 205.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    This must once have been true of seatbelts too, before all the experiments that were done with dummies and cadavers. One could argue that similar experiments should be done with parachutes: Throwing dummies and cadavers out of aircraft onto
26. 206.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    > Why doesn't someone launch a site for such questions? Occasionally they do. But they take a lot of effort to moderate and generate negligible ad revenue, so they usually do not last long.
27. 207.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    Agreed. For every foo.stackexchange.com there is already a meta.foo.stackexchange.com and a chat.foo.stackexchange.com. Why not add idle.foo.stackexchange.com to the mix?
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    by finnw 14y ago

    Be careful - ACP[1] for VHS recorders was patented, and manufacturers were forced to implement it (and pay the royalties.) [1]:[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision#Content_protection_... ]
29. 209.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    If you could, I imagine that the hard part would be proving it correct.
30. 210.▲
    by finnw 14y ago

    I'm surprised the article does not mention firmware . It is an essential part of many electronic devices, is copyrightable, and it is not often feasible to replace it with an open-source equivalent.